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Originally Posted by mbovenka
Oh, so do I. Bending or twisting forces will be lethal to E-ink screens, far more so than to tablet screens. A good stiff cover helps a lot with that.
Where your tablet might survive you sitting on it, your ereader probably won't. But both will survive a simple drop probably roughly equally well; I've dropped my readers often enough  |
Yes, they do seem pretty good when it comes to drops. I've dropped my readers innumerable times from 1m+ heights onto hard surfaces and thus far they've survived. But because this can (and does) happen, I never use any reader without a good cover on it. My current Voyage has a chip knocked out of the bezel where it fell off the arm of a garden chair and landed on its corner (where the cover doesn't protect it) on a concrete surface.
As you say, it's bending or twisting forces that are the guaranteed killer.
The day can't come soon enough when all devices use a flexible plastic substrate rather than glass.